Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is to embark on a peace mission to the Middle East, the party said yesterday.
Mr Adams is heading to Israel and the Palestinian Authority territories at the invitation of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
Mr Adams said "genuine negotiation and dialogue" were imperative.
"While no two conflicts are identical, there are key conflict resolution principles which can be applied in any situation," he said.
"These include inclusive dialogue, respect for electoral mandates and respect for human rights and international law."
Meanwhile, the party called for an intensification of efforts by the British and Irish governments to bring a settlement to the North.
Speaking at a meeting of the party's ardchomhairle on Saturday, chief negotiator Martin McGuinness said Sinn Féin hoped to see powersharing restored by the November 24th deadline. "It is still possible to make progress in the coming period, but it will only happen if the British and Irish governments play a decisive role," he said.
"It is their responsibility to see major progress made in the time ahead and we need to see an intensification of efforts if that is to happen."
Mr McGuinness said the ard- chomhairle had agreed that Assembly members would participate in what Sinn Féin has dubbed the "Hain Assembly", "on the same basis as before the summer recess, with the sole purpose of restoring the Good Friday agreement institutions and we will, therefore, engage only in work that genuinely contributes to that objective".
It emerged last week that the governments are considering holding "hothouse talks" in Scotland in a bid to nudge the parties towards agreement. But the parties said they would resist such plans.
Speaking on Radio Ulster's Inside Politics programme, Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey said: "I don't understand it. The one time we actually got any agreement was here. This idea that we run away from our own people to try and cut a deal somewhere and come back and wave a piece of paper . . . I don't think the public believe in that and I think it is a disincentive to reach agreement."
Sir Reg welcomed indications last week that the UVF may engage with the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, which oversees paramilitary decommissioning. The UVF is linked to the Progressive Unionist Party, which is controversially allied to the Ulster Unionist group in the Assembly.
"We are interested in seeing transformation from it being a paramilitary organisation to a body exclusively committed to peaceful means and if you are exclusively committed to peaceful means you don't need weapons." His party is to debate the controversial link with the PUP this week.